The god complex (Book one of The Devil's Daughter trilogy)

Chapter thirty-three.

"What did you do Aphy?!" Her body lays on the ground motionless and lacking of all color, she looks dead. Her eyes are open wide and empty as they look straight up at the ceiling, but her chest rises and falls in a rhythm. She may look dead but she is still alive, some what.

"She isn't dead Athena, not yet any way."

"What do you mean by that?" My voice is rising as Aphrodite's guards haul up Night away from Fire, he his crying like a baby and I understand why. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"I gave you what you wanted Athena. The drink I gave her trapped her inside her mind but only for a moment. She is alive and well but she may die."

"Die?" My voice deadpans as Fire's body heaves up and coughs and sputters, spewing out a pink fog from her mouth.

"Yes, and if she doesn't wake up soon that fog will consume her." Aphy nods her head toward the fog that fell out of her mouth and I see it swirling around her body, tightly clinging to her body.

"Make it stop Aphy."

"Can't. She swallowed it and now she must choose to wake up herself or die." I bow my head and hang it low. This is my fault if she dies and I could have just gotten her killed.

"Athena?" My voice shakes as my eyes flutter awake but something is off, pink fog circles around me in sharp pink jags. "Night?" The words echo around in the fog and I try to step toward the fog to inspect it but it darts out and tries to push through my body. My hands fly up instinctively to ward off the pink jab but instead of being punctured by it my fire has returned and scorches it.

"Finally." My ears ring at the voice and I turn in circles searching for it, the fire in my hands ready to slice through her.

"Luna." My voice is icy as I find her eyes in the fog and then she smiles. I throw out my flames at her and the fog but she vanishes before it can land.

"You're going to have to be faster than that." I whip around when I feel breath on the back of my neck and shoot out flames everywhere. It scorches all of the pink fog but more just rolls out of the darkness making me shoot out more and more flames until I remain tired and no longer able to shoot out anymore flames.

"Come and face me Luna."

"You forget my title little flame." I feel her hands around me in an instant before I can throw out a punch to hit her. I scratch out at her to stop but one of my fists connect with her face and her form falters and reveals pink smoke spilling out from her cuts.

"This isn't real." My flame returns and I strike out and scorch the fog again. She is gone and I feel everything shake around me, I'm waking up.

The fog stretches out and grabs me from every direction it comes from. I scream as the fog stabs out and strikes me in all places. I feel my breath stop in my lungs and my heart shutters, again the fog swallows me.

"Look Athena. The color is returning to her. Now when she wakes leave her be she will come to you. Answer her questions truly, under no circumstances do not lie to her."

"I don't understand Aphrodite. Will she side with us?"

"I'll be right beside you to help out with the answers. Speak to her about fighting and she will follow." As soon as Aphrodite finishes talking Fire's body heaves up with new life and I know she has returned to me, us. She stands and searches the room but her eyes just glaze right over us, as she searches for something else.

"What is she doing?"

"I-I don't know." Aphrodite's voice is scared as she watches Fire search the room for anything but seeing nothing. She bumps into everything and quickly grows angry, and finally it dawns on me that she can't see.